Red Pepper Flakes. A blog by Imelda Suriato

Burberry Eyewear: Swiveling heads

Burberry shows its Eyewear in a enticing way on Facebook. It caught me by surprise because this unassuming tab looks just like any other nice-photo-of-beautiful-models-wearing-merchandise interface. But then I mouse-over the model and — EEEK!! — her head swivels following my cursor! No, I’m not making this up. It freaked me out for a sec!

Browse all the models here and see how smoothly the interaction is. It could still be a bit better (yeah, I don’t like all the pre-loader either) but it’s a totally cool way of showcasing the eyewear: On actual persons, on pretty much every angle that matters. Superbly done!

Get BP’ed!

As part of my disgust over the atrocious environmental disaster courtesy of BP, I’m sharing this virtual oil spill so you can now have the same disregard by Oil-Spilling any website. See how my website get brutalized with gushing underwater oil.

Go Instant Oil Spill your site now. Brought to you by the folks at A Cleaner Future.

Augmented Shadow

Instead of making virtual objects come to life atop a flat surface, designer Joon Moon’s Augmented Shadow brings another dimension to AR, using tangible objects to produce artificial shadows on a tabletop display. The cubes create a shadow world of small houses with creatures living inside and moving around seeking out the light.

It is indeed the flipside to table top augmented reality. Kudos!

Via Design Boom.

Companhia Athletica’s clever calendar

These calendar from Companhia Athletica is excellent

To keep their members’ motivation throughout the year, the agency DM9DDB created a clever calendar with cutout silhouettes of a man or a woman that will be slimmer as the months go by.

Cute and clever, and I want one!

How Many Cups in a Gallon?

Since I lived most of my life in the metric world, those pints vs. quarts vs. gallons conversions always got me. I only know that the smallest milk carton or ice cream container is the pint, even tho it’s easier to just buy the quart-size (less trip to the store & to the fridge).

I’m glad I found this article, Memory Tricks: Remembering How Many Cups in a Gallon, from Apartment Therapy‘s The Kitchn.

The typographic mnemonic device translates to:

2 Cups in a Pint
2 Pints in a Quart
4 Quarts in a Gallon

Two “C’s” inside a “P,” two “P’s” inside a “Q,” and four “Q’s” inside a big “G.”

Even though it’s not exactly an “AHA!” moment for me, it’s  a nice “et voilà” so in the future, I can explain it better to other members of the metric system.

Meanwhile, did I just polished a pound of mascarpone cheese with raspberry and sprinkled sugar? What’s 500 gr. to a pound? Why so confusing?!

p.s. Just to show you the beauty of the metric system: 1 litre = 1 cubic decimetre ≈ 1 kilogram of water. That is beautiful.